Watch Beck Cover David Bowie’s ‘Sound and Vision’ with 160-Piece Band

When the folks at Lincoln decided to launch a new promotional campaign featuring contemporary artists covering classic songs, Beck was an obvious natural choice -- after all, his Record Club project has already found him recording new versions of the Velvet Underground and Leonard Cohen, among others.

The Ford-backed automaker recently debuted the results of their Beck collaboration, embedded above: A nine-and-a-half-minute version of 'Sound and Vision' that finds him putting a new spin on the David Bowie hit with a massive 160-piece ensemble, including chorus and orchestra. Aside from giving Beck an opportunity to pay tribute to Bowie, it also afforded him the unique experience of recording what Lincoln is calling a "fully immersive" experience.

You won't be able to sample that 360-degree experience in the clip embedded above -- that'll be unveiled at the Lincoln site in a few more days -- but this will give you an idea of how Beck deconstructed Bowie's track, which we've embedded below. What do you think: Does the new version do the old one justice?